World History
Study Guide
– Chapter 5 – Absolute Monarchs of Europe
Use this as a guide. Some questions and materials are not listed that may appear on the exam from your notes, textbook, atlas worksheets, and homework.
Chapter 5, Section 1 -
Spain’s Empire and European Absolutism , pages 155-161
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Philip II
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Absolute Monarch
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Divine Right
1.
What is the significance of England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada?
2. Why did the Dutch revolt against Spain?
Chapter 5, Section 2
– The Reign of Louis XIV, pages 162-168
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Cardinal Mazarin
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War of the Spanish Succession
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Edict of Nantes
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Louis XIV aka Sun King
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Intendant
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Henry IV
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Louis XIII
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Versailles
3. What was the result of the War of Spanish Succession?
4. How did Jean Baptiste Colbert intend to stimulate economic growth in France?
5. In what ways did Louis XIV cause suffering to the French people?
Chapter 5, Section 4
– Absolute Rulers of Russia, pages 174-177
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Peter the Great
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Ivan the Terrible
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Boyar
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Westernization
6. How did Ivan the Terrible deal with hi s enemies during his “bad period”?
7. Why did Peter the Great believe that Russia’s future depended on having a warm water port?
8. What were some of the ways Peter tried to westernize Russia?

Chapter 5
– Parliament Limits English Monarchy, pages 180-183
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Constitutional Monarchy
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English Bill of Rights
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Divine Right
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Petition of Right
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Glorious Revolution
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Habeas Corpus
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Restoration
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English Civil War
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Parliament
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Cabinet
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James I
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Charles I
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Oliver Cromwell
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Charles II
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William and Mary
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James II
9. List the causes, participants, and outcome of the English Civil War.
10. How did Parliament try to limit the power of the English monarchy?
11. Why was the death of Charles I revolutionary?
12. What rights did the Habeas Corpus Act guarantee?
13. How does a constitutional monarchy differ from an absolute monarchy?

World History
Study Guide
– Chapters 6 – Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Use this as a guide. Some questions and materials are not listed that may appear on the exam from your notes, textbook, and homework.
Chapter 6, Section 1
– The Scientific Revolution, pages 189-194
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Geocentric theory
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Scientific revolution
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Heliocentric theory
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Galileo Galilei
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Scientific method
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Isaac Newton
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Robert Boyle
14. What are the four steps of the scientific method?
15. How did the heliocentric theory differ from the geocentric theory?
16. What four new instruments came into use during this period?
Chapter 6, Section 2 – The Enlightenment in Europe, pages 195-200
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Enlightenment
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Social contract
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John Locke
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Philosophe
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Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
17. How did the ideas of Hobbes and Locke differ?
18. What are the natural rights with which people are born, according to Locke?
Chapter 6, Section 3 – The Enlightenment Spreads, pages 202-205
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Salon
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Neoclassical
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Baroque
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Enlightened despot
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Catherine the Great
19. What advantages did salons have over earlier forms of communication in spreading ideas?
20. What sort of reforms did enlightened despots make?

World History
Study Guide
– Chapters 7 – French Revolution through Napoleon
Use this as a guide. Some questions and materials are not listed that may appear on the exam from your notes, textbook, atlas worksheets, and homework.
Chapter 7, Section 1
– The French Revolution, pages 217-221
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Old Regime
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Estates
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Louis XVI
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Marie Antoinette
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Estates-General
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National Assembly
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Tennis Court Oath
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Great Fear
21. Why were members of the Third Estate dissatisfied with life under the Old
Regime?
22. How did Louis XVI’s weak leadership contribute to the growing crisis in France?
Chapter 7, Section 2 – Revolution Brings Reform and Terror, pages 222-227
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Legislative Assembly
 Émigré
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Sans-culotte
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Jacobin
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Guillotine
Maximiliem Robespierre
Reign of Terror
23. What major reforms did the National Assembly introduce?
24. What did the divisions in the Legislative Assembly say about the differences in
French society? Think left, right, and center.
25. How did the Reign of Terror come to an end?
Chapter 7, Section 3 – Napoleon Forges an Empire, pages 229-233
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Napoleon Bonaparte
 Coup d’etat
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Plebiscite
 Lyceé
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Concordat
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Napoleonic Code
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Battle of Trafalgar
26. Describe how Napoleon came to power.
27. List the domestic changes/reforms made by Napoleon.
Chapter 7, Section 4 – Napoleon’s Empire Collapses, pages 234-237
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Blockade
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Continental System
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Guerrilla
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Peninsular War
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Scorched-earth policy
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Waterloo
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Hundred Days
28.
How did Great Britain fight Napoleon’s naval blockade?
29. What factors led to Napoleon ’s defeat in Russia?
30. Why were the European allies able to defeat Napoleon in 1814 and 1815?
Chapter 7, Section 5
– The Congress of Vienna, pages 238-241
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Congress of Vienna
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Klemens von Metternich
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Balance of power
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Legitimacy
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
31. What were the three points of Metternich’s plan for Europe?
32. Why was the Congress of Vienna considered a success?
33. How did the Congress of Vienna ensure peace in Europe?

World History
Study Guide
– Chapter 9 – Industrial Revolution
Directions: Use this as a guide to prepare for the test. Remember to review everything
– your notes, vocabulary list, textbook, worksheets, atlas worksheets, and homework.
Chapter 9, Section 1
– The Beginnings of Industrialization, pages 283-288
Industrial Revolution
Industrialization
Factory
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Crop rotation
Enclosure
Capitalism
Factors of production
34. What reasons, events, and inventions helped bring about the Industrial
Revolution?
35. How did science, technology, and big business promote industrial growth?
36. How did rising population help the Industrial Revolution?
37. What 5 advantages did Great Britain have that other nations in Europe did not?
Chapter 9, Section 2 – Industrialization – Case Study: Manchester, pages 289-294
Urbanization Middle Class
1. What were living conditions like in Britain during industrialization?
2. What were the possible dangers of working in a mine or factory?
3. What social class expanded as a result of industrialization?
4. What were some of the negative effects of industrialization?
5. Why did people flock to British cities and towns during the Industrial Revolution?
Chapter 9, Section 3
– Industrialization Spreads, pages 295-299
Stock
Corporation
Productivity
1. List 5 reasons why productivity increased during the Industrial Revolution.
2. What were the 4 effects of the railroad in Great Britain?
3. Why were other European countries slower to industrialize than Britain?
4. Take it to the next step. Why did non-industrialized countries fall behind?
Chapter 9, Section 4
– Reforming the Industrial World, pages 300-307
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Horace Mann
Jane Addams
William Wilberforce
David Ricardo
Thomas Malthus
Adam Smith
Robert Owen
Socialism
Utilitarianism
Union
Communism
Strike
Laissez faire
John Stuart Mill
Charles Fourier & Henri de Saint- Simon
1. What were the two warring classes that Marx and Engels outlined in The
Communist Manifesto ?
2. Why did workers join together in unions?
3. What kind of society did early socialists want? Think John Stuart Mills, Robert
Owen, etc.
4. What were Adam Smith’s three natural laws of economics?

5. What were the positive effects of the Industrial Revolution?
6. What characteristics do capitalism and socialisms share? How are they different?
7. What were two important inventions created during the Industrial Revolution?
Choose any two. Discuss their impact.